BBC America’s Survivors: Love in a post-apocalyptic world

When one of the last men on earth declares his love for one of the last women on earth, the last thing he wants to hear is, “I’m really flattered, but…”

Ouch. Tom finally declares his feelings for Anya and she shoots him down. In all fairness, she did make it clear early on that boys weren’t her thing.

Other stuff happened, too, in this next-to-the-last episode of Survivors, including:

The gang stops to investigate a car accident and ends up at The Valley, a commune of sorts where, as it turns out, a second wave of the virus has just struck. Sarah stumbles onto the outbreak and once she realizes she has been infected, quarantines herself with others who are sick. Of course, this happens the morning after Al announces his love for her to the entire commune. Ah, love in a post-apocalyptic world.

Abby and Greg visit his former home, where he retrieves the postcard he received days before the outbreak — the one with the phrase, “Hope Never Dies” and a series of numbers, the same one Whitaker had on his desk. He figures out that the numbers are coordinates, so he and Abby set off. They find an airstrip there, and a man waiting for a flight to The Other Side. When the man realizes Abby and Greg are not pilots ready to fly him away, he kills himself. Abby theorizes that if others broke on through to The Other Side, then perhaps Greg’s children did, too.

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Greg, despite the postcard and Abby’s always optimistic outlook, has no hope.

Sarah dies and in response, Abby — who returned from their road trip to find out, once again, that everything went to heck while she was gone — burns down the house where Sarah died. Anya responds by sleeping with Tom because, “Now is all there is.” Ah, love in a post-apocalyptic world.

Faced with the presence of a second wave, Abby decides to return to the lab, to help the mad scientists fight the virus before it wipes out everyone who didn’t die during the first go-round. The gang decides to go with, and they arrive to find the doors open and the scientists dead. As they are digging through Whitaker’s office, Abby spies Peter on the CC TV. He’s out in front of the lab, but by the time she gets there, he’s gone.